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On Saturday, January 26, 2019, I had the privilege of giving this year’s Paul Sykes Memorial Lecture to the Vancouver Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. My topic was “Astronomy and Science Fiction” and during the talk I mentioned the following SF novels (listed in italics) and short stories (listed in quotation marks):H.G. […]

At the Canadian Authors Association’s CanWrite 2015 conference, June 11-14, 2015: A Thematic Approach to Science Fiction: Science fiction is often called “the literature of ideas,” and with good reason: the fresh central idea is often the defining characteristic of a science-fiction novel. Join bestselling author Robert J. Sawyer for a discussion of how to […]

I have two public appearances coming up very soon in the United Kingdom. Both are free and open to the public: Public Lecture “Foresight in Fiction” Darwin College Lecture Series Cambridge University, UK Friday, February 1, 2013, at 5:30 p.m. darwin.cam.ac.uk/lectures Reading and Signing Big Green Bookshop Unit 1, Brampton Park Road Wood Green London, […]

Free transhumanism lecture! Free snacks! Plus you get to be part of the studio audience for TVOntario’s Big Ideas series: it’s all happening this Monday night, November 21, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. at The Gardiner Museum in Toronto, 111 Queen’s Park (just across the screet from the ROM). Sponsor: The Literary Review of Canada, co-producing […]

Now available on YouTube: my full 1 hour and 12 minute talk given at Google Waterloo on Wednesday, May 27, 2009. Wake up, Watch it, and Wonder about it … ;) (If you prefer an audio podcast, you can get that here.) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com